Hideously gruesome photographs and videotapes of Saddam Hussein's police torturing innocent Iraqis held at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison are said to be in the hands of the new Arab-language television network Alhurra, which is culling through the material deciding what to broadcast.

Novelist and screenwriter Roger Simon reports on his Web Site that the images include: * Photographs of actual live castrations of Kurds.

* Video tapes of two beheadings, with one featuring the executioners singing "Happy Birthday, Saddam" in Arabic as they carry out the grisly murder.

* More video of a detainee whose hand his tied to a board while his fingers are cut off one by one.

* People being thrown off four-story buildings, including one who was forced to wear a Superman costume.

* A man scourged ninety-nine times.

* Videos of babies being gassed to death.

Writes Simon, "I would like to know if any of these torturers is actually in Abu Ghraib right now. . . . I also would like to know what Senator Kennedy has to say about the moral equivalence of our actions after watching these tapes."

Kennedy is kind of hard to understand. Look how he killed his own pregnant girlfriend by drowning her --- that wasn't exactly a pleasant death for her I'm sure --- but also his own brother was murdered by an Arab but it doesn't seem to affect him --- unless he's scared they'll get him if he doesn't comply.

I hope these are widely played in the USA Media. However, I strongly doubt it. The censorship of the left-wing, America haters in the Democrat Party and the USA media will prevent them from being shown. The ace in the hole is widespread distribution on the internet. Go to it! We are all waiting!!!!

Reuters
April 29, 2004
Arabs are watching US TV channel Alhurra - survey
WASHINGTON -- The controversial U.S. Arabic-language TV channel
Alhurra is winning viewers as a news source in the Arab world despite
rising anti-American attitudes in the region, according to a
U.S.-financed poll released on Thursday.
The telephone survey of 3,588 people aged 15 or older in 13 cities was
done by the French research company Ipsos-Stat in early April for the
the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the independent federal agency
that oversees all U.S. international nonmilitary broadcasting.
The results showed Alhurra -- in its first two months -- is being
watched by an average 29 percent of the satellite-equipped households
in seven countries, including a high of 44 percent in Kuwait and a low
of 18 percent in Egypt.
The survey also found that an average 53 percent of the viewers
consider the channel programming to be reliable or somewhat reliable.
This includes a high of 70 percent reliability felt by Saudis and a
low of 37 percent reliability among Syrians.
"I was very surprised by these numbers," considering all the negative
press in the region saying no one is watching Alhurra and the fact
that a religious "fatwa" edict was issued against the channel in Saudi
Arabia, said Norman Pattiz of the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
"Within the first two months of broadcasting Alhurra has quickly
established itself as a player among satellite stations in the Middle
East," he told a news conference.
Some 40 percent of people in the Middle East have access to satellite
television, Pattiz said.
Many Arab critics have argued that President George W. Bush launched
Alhurra, the "Free One," as a propaganda tool to advance a war on
Islam.
The Americans contend the TV channel is needed to compete for the
hearts and minds of Muslims against pan-Arabic stations Al-Jazeera and
Al-Arabiya, which U.S. officials charge often distort U.S. policy and
are hostile to it.
Pattiz said the survey numbers for Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya are much
higher but still the results for Alhurra are "great indicators."
"Our product is credibility in news and information. If we don't have
that, we're dead in the water," he said.
The station operates 24 hours a day every day and aims to "present
U.S. policies accurately and credibly" through full discussions
representing a variety of viewpoints, he added.
Pattiz said Alhurra and the U.S.-funded Radio Sawa, which also
operates in the Middle East, still have hurdles to overcome in winning
viewers and listeners.
But experience is proving that "if you give them an example of product
that is balanced and that clearly tells all sides of the issues ...
then they will come, and they have," he said.
The Alhurra survey was conducted in Beirut, Lebanon; Damascus and
Aleppo in Syria; Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates;
Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt; Kuwait City; Amman, Irbid and Zarqa in
Jordan; and Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

Do you remember the video of an Iraqi man being pulled screaming from a UN vehicle by iraqi police in the weeks leading up to war? The UN workers simply stepped back as police hauled him and an armload of papers out of their vehicle.

The Americans contend the TV channel is needed to compete for the hearts and minds of Muslims against pan-Arabic stations Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, which U.S. officials charge often distort U.S. policy and are hostile to it.

I think it is neither interesting or anything we need to watch. The idea here is not "who's worse", in some kind of voyeuristic 'can you top this' ghastly display. I don't know who's worse, the people who will watch it with eyes fixed... Exclaming how horrified they are as they watch it again and again, or the media who just knows us too well.

I also would like to know what Senator Kennedy has to say about the moral equivalence of our actions after watching these tapes

That must be a rhetorical. Kennedy will be very silent about these tapes. Now, as for the US Military's abuse at the Iraqi prisons and Rumsfeld acting on direct orders from Bush knew that blablahlah.......

[Kennedy has one priority--to get Kerry elected. The Saddam tapes don't fit that agenda; the US Military prisoners' guards tapes do fit that agenda.]

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posted on 05/16/2004 8:00:54 AM PDT
by TomGuy
(Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)

It's strange but I guess not when you realize it's democrats --- Arafat pays Sirhan Bishara Sirhan to murder RFK --- Hillary kisses Arafat, Ted doesn't seem to have a problem with Arafat either --- would probably give him a big smooch too. What a strange family, what a strange political party.

Why, they can't show those. They would be too horrifying for the American public. That would be irresponsible journalsim. Now, these pics of Abu Glabadaba prison, look how horrifed these poor widdle terrorists insurrectionists are treated. [Pic of prisoner naked with panties on his head.] Oh the inhumanity. And this pic of a prisoner who had his Froot Loops withheld from him. And the smoking gun that connects Rumsfeld who personally ordered this torture of these thugs poor fellows. They self-esteem has suffered so much that they probably won't even be able to return to their terrorizing former jobs after they get released.

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posted on 05/16/2004 8:08:45 AM PDT
by TomGuy
(Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)

NOBODY deserved Hussein, and when did the Iraqis ever get to vote for an alternative?

Whereas in the US we do get to vote in the government we deserve. Fortunately, in the 2000 election, the Infinite Power gave us the government we really needed. Just a little jiggling with the Electoral College, there, by putting nearly all the fraudulent votes in the 'Blue' states, and preventing an overturn of the more nearly honest results in Florida.

--- Does anyone else get the feeling that this story just jumped the shark??---

Not in the mainstream media...They're in a feeding frenzy. But something always happens to put things into perspective. I thought the Berg story would do it. but many Americans aren't really aware of it. I'm amazed that my own family just knows about it in a vague sense.

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